Author: cormacmccarthy
In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham–nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than … kinship greater than perhaps they know–are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains…
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road: On the cusp of World War II, Billy Parham sets out to return a wolf to Mexico — a journey with unintended consequences. “Towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity” (The Sunday Times).
“The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner,” writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. “I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.”Cormac McCarthy’s … McCarthy’s masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an…
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author comes “a novel that must be read and remembered” (Houston Chronicle): When Llewellyn Moss discovers a fortune amidst a crime scene, he makes a decision with far-reaching implications. “A narrative that rips along like hell on wheels” (The New York Times Book Review).
A Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestseller with over 263,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: After a worldwide disaster, a father and son make their way through a shattered landscape. A “wildly powerful” read (Time) hailed as “one of McCarthy’s best novels” (Los Angeles Times).
In this National Book Award winner from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, a young man sets out on a life-changing journey. “A true American original” (Newsweek) with over 29,000 five-star Goodreads ratings.